Powder-package.



E. FRANK.

POWDER PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED 0m. 20. 1911.

Patented Aug. 20, 1918.

State of Ohio, have inventeda new and usebe folded.

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specification of Letters Eatent. Patented Aug, 261), 32318.,

Application filed October 20, 1217. serial 230. $197,608.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Emu. FRANK, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and ful Improvement in Powder-Packages, of

which the following specification is a full disclosure.

My invention relates. to a powder package of cardboard or the like, securely sealed for commercial shippin and handling, but having a covered, nozz e-like pro ection to unctured, providing a reduced outlet ontute such a package for retailing powder as a bellows or powder ejecting structure,

so that when the nozzle coverlng is punctured, the package can besqueezed or compressed and the powder ejected in a thin stream under the compression influence, in a manner enabling the ready application of an insect powder.

Preferably the package is of triangular shape and approximately an inch or less in thickness.

Another object of the invention is to form .this package from a one-piece blank of a shape enabling economical blanking and a0 foldable into triangular shape.

The features of my invention will be more fully set forth in the description of the 'accompan ing drawing, forming .a part of this speci cation, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the completed package.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3, Fig. 2.

The blank is shown in. Fig. 1 of a single piece of cardboard substantially diamondshape in outline. It is formed with themedial, transverse scored line2 enabling the divisions to be folded upon one another into triangular outline. The package is given cubic dimensions by means of the four marginal side sections 12, 13, 14, 15, defined by scored lines 3, 4, 5, 6, and by two base sections 16, 17, defined by the transverse scored forming extremities when the blank is The blank adjacent each terminal of the transverse scored lines 2, 7, 8, is pro- One object of the invention is to constilines 7, 8, parallel with the medial trans.

roviding registration of the nozzle.

vided with notches 18, 19,. 20, and-scored lines 21, 22, 23, 2t, defining the trianlar base corner sections 25, 26, 27, and 28. The base corner sections 26, 27, and the side sec= tions 12, 13, 14, 15 are bent upwardly at an angle to the blank and the base sections defined by the transverse scored' lines are likewise bent, so that when the triangle sectlons 29., 30, of the blank are folded together, the marginal side and transverse base sections provide a rather flat, but boxlike structure, compressible cross sectionally. The triangular corner sections register to close the angles or corners at. the base of the triangle, and the nozzle ends register at the apex or ejector end of the structure.

When theblank is folded into a carton or package, the triangle sections 29 and 30 provide flat top and bottom or face Walls. The side sections 16 and 17 in the blank are connected together and respectively to the sect1ons 29 and 30, and when folded along the scored lines 2, 7, 8, form relatively opposin diagonal side walls of the carton and ben able along the scored lines or line of juncture. The sections 12, 14, and the sections 13, 15, when the carton .is filled and sealed, for each of the other sides of thecarton form relatively opposing diagonal walls bendable along the lines of juncture, providing bellows edges to permit the carton to be compressed and function as a powder gun for discharging the contents in a spray when an apex of the carton has been punctured.

The meeting edges of the blank and the registering corners are secured by an adhesivel applied tape 31, which also extends over t e nozzle opening 32 of the folded blank, efiectually sealing the package, which is, of course, filled with the powder before sealing.

The package can be safely shipped or handled, and the user upon puncturing the nozzle covering, has a veritable bellows or ejector, which, when squeezed, will com I and the sides are beveled outwardly, making a neat appearance and providing the bellows characteristic.

While the major portion of the package is quite flexible and compressible the nozzle end and base corners are relatively rigid, said rigidity protecting the package against injury due to rough usage.

Having described my invention, I claim: 1. A compressible powder shipping package and gun of substantially triangular shape, having flat top and bottom walls, relatively opposing diagonal side walls connected together and respectively to said top and bottom walls, and bendable along their line of juncture to form a bellows, and one apex of the package constituting a nozzle when punctured. I I

2. A compressible carton for powder having flat top and bottom walls joined by connected relatively opposing diagonal side walls, bendable along their lines of juncture to form a bellows, and one apex of the carton constituting a nozzle when punctured.

3. A compressible powder package formed of a one-piece blank, folded upon itself to constitute a fiat, box-like structure, having beveled sides providing a medial line of fiexation, the corners and the medial joint of the sides being sealed with tape, one of the corners being out to form a bellows nozzle when punctured.

4. A one-piece blank for a powder package, comprising a rectangular blank having a diagonal scored line for folding twooorrespondlng shape sections upon one another, and also having marginal and rela tively diagonal scored lines for bending up 'mating bevel sides, the corners being slit to provide registration, and the opposite corner being out to constitute a nozzle end when the blank is folded upon itself.

5. carton powder gun oonsisting'of two opposlng side walls joined by bellows edge walls terminating to apexes at the corners of the walls, one apex providing a nozzle when punctured and a tape covering said edge walls, corners and margins of the opposing side walls.

6. A polygonal shaped carton owder gun formed from a blan and fol ed to integrally comprise two opposing flat faced walls, and relatively opposing diagonal side Walls connected together and to the face walls,

and bendable along their juncture lines to form a bellows, one apex of the carton con stituting a nozzle when punctured.

7. A carton powder gun consisting of two opposing flat face walls and oppositely inclined edge walls joining said face walls and forming a bellows structure terminating to apexes at the corners of the walls, one apex providing a nozzle when punctured,

and a tape secured to and covering the margins.

In witness whereof I hereunto subscribe my name as attested by the two subscrib ing witnesses.

EMIL FRANK. Witnesses I MILDRED SMITH, L. A. BECK. 

